GP laughed at me

Tbh sometimes taking people with you doesn't really help, I took my mum with me (even though she waited in the waiting room) but I still struggled.

Maybe you could write everything you feel on a piece of paper and hand it too the doctor, that will probably be much more helpful that struggling with words, y'know?

I'm sure they do care, sometimes we aren't very good at showing people that we're struggling and just assume that they don't care if about you and it;s mostly because we don't care about ourselves enough. Honestly, things will be alright. Try to talk to someone in your personal life if you can, if not that is fine, go to your new GP and look at all the options available to you.

I know things will get better, you already took the first step in getting the help you felt like you needed, sadly an A-hole of a doctor didn't reciprocate, but they aren't all like that. Everything will be okay

My dads GP did something similar, my dad has schizophrenia and I went with him to his appointment once and his GP at one point said 'yes I really did say that, it wasn't in your head'. I just stared at him with a WTF expression on my face. What a d**k!

After a long long time of living miserably I finally decided to go and speak to my gp. SO i told him how I've been feeling scared and hopeless and everything else that's wrong. I also told him that I am hearing stuff (sometimes I hear a group of people shouting at me and it seems very real when it's happening but when I think later on about this I realise I hear just stuff). But he didn't do anything to make me feel better instead he laughed at me. I am very upset

When you say he laughed at you, was it a sympathetic cheer up its gonna be okay laugh or a omg hahahah @ you laugh?
If I were you I would simply book another appointment but request with the receptionist that you'd like to see another GP. At my practice, each GP has their own special interest as well, for example one of the GPs special interest is adolescence mental health and child disease. See if any of your GPs have interest in mental health and request to be seen by them as they may be more knowledgable/ sympathetic in this area. What that GP did though wasn't right and no patient should leave the consultation room feeling upset or laughed at

Unfortunately some people in the medical profession have little understanding of mental health and how to respond. When I was 19 I took an overdose and had to spend two days in hospital, one of the ambulance men said in a very patronising way 'aww, have you had a little squabble with your boyfriend?' I felt so patronised and very upset, he spoke to me like a 10 year old.

Well that guy was clearly a dick...
But tbh though, I think what happens is they're under a lot of stress and they're constantly witnessing these extreme situations and for some it ends up being the case that the only way they can get through the day is by making light of things... The patients being the ones who often get the brunt of this which defeats the objective of their role in a medical/care profession :/ smh

When you hear things, just ignore it. You don't want to be diagnosed with a mental condition and on pills for the rest of your life.

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After a long long time of living miserably I finally decided to go and speak to my gp. SO i told him how I've been feeling scared and hopeless and everything else that's wrong. I also told him that I am hearing stuff (sometimes I hear a group of people shouting at me and it seems very real when it's happening but when I think later on about this I realise I hear just stuff). But he didn't do anything to make me feel better instead he laughed at me. I am very upset

When you hear things, just ignore it. You don't want to be diagnosed with a mental condition and on pills for the rest of your life.

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This is true and I get that they must see some terrible things but they don't understand that their actions/comments may have very dire effects on mentally ill people

After a long long time of living miserably I finally decided to go and speak to my gp. SO i told him how I've been feeling scared and hopeless and everything else that's wrong. I also told him that I am hearing stuff (sometimes I hear a group of people shouting at me and it seems very real when it's happening but when I think later on about this I realise I hear just stuff). But he didn't do anything to make me feel better instead he laughed at me. I am very upset

Firstly sorry to hear that things are not good for your mental health.
Secondly did you mention to him her about any physical symptoms such as increased appetite, decreased appetite, feeling tired



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Get a new GP and express to them how dissapointed you are. Ask for a psychologist or a psychiatrist. Even if the voices are a result of health anxiety, something causing you grief must be treated!

Psychologists are wonderful, talk therapy can do miracles.

I'm sorry you're feeling bad about it. Try and not think of anything to do with your health, and not research it. Tell your GP. And then hopefully a specialist. Try and keep your anxiety if there is any about your issues down, as anxiety itself can cause all sorts of symptoms.